Natasha rolled to her side and stretched. She looked over at Jamie who was still dead asleep. She shakes her head as she glances at the clock, it was nearing 7:30 am. She was surprised. She normally doesn't sleep that late, especially since she has a six month old baby and a five year old. She looks back at Jamie and decides not to wake him up.
She slips out of her bed and down the hall to where she knew her children were sure to be.
She glanced into Cam's room first, but not surprisingly he wasn't there. She then headed to the nursery. She smiled at the sight. Cam had managed to get Frankie out of her crib and both of them were sitting on the floor. Frankie was sitting in Cam's lap as he attempted to read a book to her. For a kid about to start kindergarten, Cam was really smart. He could already read and do addition and subtraction, which is why Tony helped get him into an advanced school. Although Natasha knew he was nervous about it.
Frankie was pulling at her brother's mop of curls and trying to put them into her mouth. Cam was gently taking his hair away from her grabby fingers, but it was looking like a useless pursuit. The little girl looked almost exactly like her mother, except that her eyes were her father's bright blue and her little bit of hair was brown red. She smiled at her brother like she knew exactly what she was doing. Natasaha decided to interrupt the little scene before Cam got too frustrated with Frankie.
She quietly walked in, "Morning моя любовь. What are you guys doing?"
Cam grins at her, "Reading."
Natasha joins them on the ground and across from Cam, "Oh really. Are you practicing?"
He nods, "Yeah plus Frankie was awake and looking for something to do."
Natasha raised her eyebrow at that.
Speaking of Frankie, she started to pull herself up on his shoulder. Cam grinned at his little sister, "See! Frankie wanted to. And I promise I didn't wake her up. She woke up on her own."
"Ok, baby, I believe you," Natasha says with a slight chuckle.
Frankie looked over at her mother and reached her little arms out for Natasha.
Natasha reached for her and took Frankie in her arms, "Good morning baby."
Frankie snuggled into her mother's shoulder and Natasha rubbed her back. She looked at her son. As soon as she had taken Frankie, he had gotten up and put the book away. It had been a while since he had gotten alone time with either parent with Jamie working and Frankie being born. She got an idea.
Cam turned back around and raised his eyebrows in suspicion, "What?"
"We should cook breakfast for your dad."
Cam's eyebrows raised further in alarm, "You want to cook breakfast?"
"Cam, my cooking skills have gotten significantly better over the last couple of years."
He nods in agreement, "They have but you don't really do breakfast."
She leans down and picks Frankie up, "Let me leave Frankie with Jamie, so I can prove you wrong."
Cam shakes his head as Natasha leaves the room and mumbles under his breath, "We're going to have to go out for breakfast."
Natasha looked back at him and stuck her tongue out, indicating to him that she had heard his comment.
Natasha walks into her bedroom and gently lays Frankie down on Jamie. Frankie starts crawling all over her father. Luckily Jamie wakes up gently yet confused. It takes him a moment to register what's going on but he grins when he realizes it's his daughter. He picks her up and gives her a kiss, "Good morning, Winger. How'd you end up here?"
"How do you think?" Natasha asks as she leans down to give her husband a kiss.
"She could've teleported here. I can't just assume," Jamie says with a grin.
Natasha rolls her eyes at him, "No she couldn't have."
Jamie glances around the room and asks, "Where's Cam?"
"Waiting for me so we can cook breakfast together," Natasha says nonchalantly.
Jamie's face mimics the face Cam made earlier, "You mean the three of us are going to make breakfast?"
"No, I mean Cam and I. I think he's been feeling a little neglected since Frankie was born. Although the kids pretty good at hiding it."
Jamie nods in agreement, "I agree but do you have to destroy my kitchen in order to bond with our son?"
She pretends to think about the answer, "I suppose not but what's the fun in that."
Natasha laughs at Jamie's face as she leaves the room in search of the other man in her life. Jamie looks down at Frankie as Natasha goes, "What do you say we go back to bed? Well, after we text Auntie Pepper to bring some edible food over later."
"That doesn't look like pancake mix," Cam said pointing to the cement like concoction in Natasha's mixing bowl.
She gives him a slight glare, "Of course it is."
He raises an eyebrow in defiance, "That's what you said about the last ten batches," he says while pointing to the stack of pancakes resembling things.
She glares playfully at him, "Oh yeah, what do you know about pancakes?"
"Apparently a lot more than you," Jamie says as he walks into the room with Frankie in his arms.
She full on Widow glares at him as he and Cam crack up. Even Frankie laughs at her mother's facial expression.
"Ha ha ha everyone," Natasha says with an eye roll as they sobered up, "I guess maybe I can't cook pancakes."
Jamie leans over to kiss her cheek, "No you can't. We love you anyway."
Cam nods in agreement, "Yeah but what are we going to do about breakfast? I'm starving and there's no edible food."
Just then the doorbell rang and Jamie grinned, "Yeah well I thought ahead."
Natasha raised an eyebrow, "You didn't trust me?"
He grins guiltily as he deposited Frankie into Natasha's arms and walked to get the door. He openeded it to reveal Pepper, Tony, and Morgan.
Morgan grinned up at her uncle, "We brought breakfast!" she said cheerfully.
Jamie smiles at Pepper and Tony, "Thanks for coming over early you guys."
He looks back down at Morgan, "Now hurry up and go inside before Natasha kills me."
The little girl grinned as she ran into the house. Pepper and Tony were about to enter the house when Jamie put an arm in front of Tony.
Tony looked at him confused, "What?"
Jamie glares, "Do not say anything about the pancakes. I'm already in trouble."
"Well I'm glad you can acknowledge that," Jamie heard from behind him.
Pepper chuckled as she shifted the food in her arms. Jamie comically turned around to his very pissed off wife.
He chuckled nervously as he turned around, "In my defense, I didn't want our children to die early deaths. Or us for that matter."
Natasha picked up a pillow and threw it at Jamie. He ducked and it hit Tony square in the face.
"Hey!" Tony exclaimed.
Pepper pets her husbands shoulder, "You would've been hit anyways after you commented on Nat's cooking. Come on, Tony."
"It wasn't guaranteed," he mumbled as he followed his wife into the kitchen.
As he passed Jamie he whispers, "Good luck."
Jamie grinned angelically at his wife, "They were coming over anyways."
She rolled her eyes at her husband as she crossed the room, "Well you should've at least tried them."
He chuckles, "Babe, if I did that I would die."
She hits him again as he wraps his arms around her, "Ok ok. I'm sorry."
"You better be," she mumbles.
They make eye contact, "I am…" he says as they lean in for a kiss.
"Get a room!" they hear Tony say disgusted.
They both pull backwards and blushed slightly as Natasha says, "Tony, we own this house. We can do whatever we want."
He takes his hand off of his eyes, "Well remember that you just had a baby. I don't need to see you make another one."
This time Jamie leans down and grabs a throw pillow. He throws it at Tony.
"Ow!" the billionaire whines.
Pepper walks back into the room, "Tony leave them alone and let them eat breakfast. If we're going to get to the zoo when it opens we need to leave soon."
Tony sighs as he says, "Yes honey," he follows Pepper defeatedly into the kitchen.
Jamie and Natasha laugh as they watch their friend go.
"Yes Morgan, the panda is adorable," Tony said in a 'I'm-trying-to-be-enthusiastic-for-my-kid-but-I-hate-this' kind of way.
Natasha shook her head. Keeping Tony Stark entertained was harder to do than Cam, Morgan, and Frankie combined.
Cam looked away from the panda glass and looked at Natasha, "Can we go to the petting zoo next?"
Natasha looked at Jamie and Pepper. They both nodded.
She gives the boy a smile, "I don't see why not."
The children cheered and started walking towards the petting zoo with their parents following them.
Tony looked at her astounded, "We're going where?!"
Jamie patted Tony's shoulder, "Think about it as experiencing life as a normal civilian. You already have your disguise clothings on."
He glares at Jamie, "I liked you up until about thirty seconds ago."
Jamie steers him towards the petting zoo, "Nah. We're still cool. You need friends that aren't in the business. I'll give you that."
Tony glares as Jamie laughs, knowing he's right.
They reach the petting zoo in a few minutes. Morgan immediately runs over to a little alpaca.
"Daddy, isn't he cute?"
Tony looks at the animal, "He sure is," he says flatly, without his daughter noticing.
Natasha walks over to the two with Frankie. Cam had dragged Pepper and Jamie over to a horse to pet.
Natasha smiles at Morgan as she says, "You know, I bet if you asked nicely, you could ride him."
The little girl's face lit up, "Really?"
Natasha nods and Morgan runs over to the attendant.
Tony looks over at his daughter as she climbs the alpacas back, "I love that kid to pieces but I don't understand why she would want to ride that thing."
Natasha shakes her head, "You know, Tony, I find that parenting is easier when you're interested in what your kids are interested in."
He scuffs, "Easy for you to say. Frankie's a baby."
She raises an eyebrow, "Cam?"
"Oh yeah. Well he's very agreeable."
She raised an eyebrow, "To stuff you like. You think I knew about robots, legos, and Star Wars before I started dating Jamie?"
"Nat, you'd seen that stuff before."
"Not on their level. I learned to do stuff Cam liked so I could spend time with him. You should do stuff Morgan likes, for instance this alpaca."
He gives her a slight glare before deciding to walk over to the animal. He gently puts his hand on the alpaca and Natasha watches him smile slightly. Then she sees a look cross his face.
She looks down at Frankie, "I think I've made a monster."
"Yes you have," Pepper says as she walks up to them. Cam comes running behind her with Jamie taking up the rear.
"Mama! The horse was beautiful! Can we go horseback riding? Can we get a horse?"
Natasha glanced at Jamie and he shrugged, "Ok...no to the horse but we can go horseback riding someday."
Frankie started reaching for her father so Jamie took her and said, "You guys can go. I'm good."
Cam grinned, "Oh yeah. Daddy doesn't like horses. I think he's scared of them."
Natasha raised an eyebrow, "Oh really?"
Jamie glares at the two of them, "I am not scared of horses. I just don't particularly enjoy them."
Natasha kisses his cheek, "Alright honey."
Morgan comes running over to them and Pepper greets her with a hug, "Hey baby, how was the alpaca?"
"It was great Mommy! I love it so much! Can we get some lunch now?"
"Where's your Daddy?"
She shrugs, "Talking to the alpaca's daddy."
Pepper raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
She shrugs and turns to Cam, "I bet I can beat you to the cow pen."
Cam glares, "Can not."
Morgan sticks out her tongue and runs after him, "Watch me!" and she takes off. Cam takes off after her.
Pepper rolls her eyes, "Kids."
"I know right," Natasha says with a laugh, "Race ya?"
Pepper smiles, "Wouldn't have it any other way."
The mothers take off after their children.
Jamie shakes his head as he picks up the stuff Pepper, Natasha, Jamie, and Cam dropped. He shifts Frankie as she curls up next to him.
He shakes his head as he whispers to Frankie, "Don't let your Mama every tell you she's not a child. Ok?"
Frankie cooed in response.
Jamie turned around and saw Tony walking over to him with a grin. He leaned down and whispered to Frankie again, "And when your Uncle Tony walks over with that face, you know it's going to end with Auntie Pepper killing him."
"You got an alpaca?!" Pepper practically screamed at her husband a week later.
Natasha, Cam, and Morgan were just as shocked by Tony's newest purchase.
As Tony's about to respond, Morgan squeals, "I love it!"
"It's him sweetheart. His name is Gerald and I thought we could take care of him together."
Morgan nods eagerly as she runs over to Gerald. Cam looks warily at the alpaca for a moment before he too goes over to greet Gerald.
Tony gives his wife the sweetest smile he can muster, "See? The kids love him and I promise to take care of him."
"Tony, what was the last thing you took care of?"
"Duh, Morgan."
Pepper gives him a look and he sighs, "Ok, fine, I see your point, but hear me out. This will teach Morgan responsibility and give us a new way to bond. Don't you want us to bond?"
Pepper sighs, "Fine. But I'm not taking care of it."
"Him. His name is Gerald and he's the newest member of the family," Tony says as he walks over to the kids and Gerald. The smile on his face was genuine when he pet the alpaca, and Pepper knew he actually liked the animal.
She looked over at Jamie and narrows her eyes, "You weren't surprised? Did you know?"
Natasha too turns on him. He feels beat to speed up when he hears Frankie start crying from inside the house. He breathes a sigh of relief as he says, "I'll get her."
He bolts out of the room as Natasha and Pepper shake their head at him.
"He definitely knew," Pepper says.
"Oh totally," Natasha agrees, "He's just lucky Frankie's a Daddy's girl."